Privacy law has a definitions problem. One of the most essential but most difficult definitions at the center of data privacy statutes is ‘Personally Identifiable Information,’ also known as ‘Personal Information’ or ‘PII.’ All of the 50 state data breach notification laws define PII as a combination of […]
Hal: Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it, I can sing […]
A recent issue of MIT’s Technology Review magazine is titled, “Look how far precision medicine has come.“ At least part of the premise is that personalized medicine or precision medicine is not perceived as having made the great strides promised nearly 20 years ago, when genome mapping was […]
Attempting to protect people’s information, the EU made it more vulnerable. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is thought to provide the strongest set of data protection rules. After all, it was designed to modernize already tight laws protecting the personal information of individuals. In such […]
People have long complained that the US lags behind many other countries in facilitating real-time payments. Industry and government are addressing this problem in several ways. The two largest card networks have unveiled payment solutions that allow businesses to make real-time payments over the debit rails to bank […]
Are your selfies and karaoke videos actually a national security threat? And have you given rogue countries access to your information? Hm. FaceApp, which alters user pictures by using application (app) features, went viral after celebrities posted their images on social media. This app was created by a […]
Researchers from the International Computer Science Institute found up to 1,325 Android applications (apps) gathering data from devices despite being explicitly denied permission. The study looked at more than 88,000 apps from the Google Play store and tracked data transfers post denial of permission. The 1,325 apps used […]
After decades of free reign to gather and use personal data, Earth’s second largest internet using population may soon be imposing data privacy rules. Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s Telecom and IT minister, recently indicated that the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 (PDPB), will be “quickly” taken to Parliament […]
It violates The Fair Housing Act to advertise in ways that deny particular segments of the housing market information about housing opportunities. It also violates New York law. But what happens when you use an advertising medium that discriminates on its own? We may just find out. New […]
In 2018, the California legislature hurried a new privacy statute through the legislature at breakneck speed. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was drafted and became law with extraordinary speed, as legislators wanted to preempt a data privacy ballot initiative. In the past year, we’ve seen about a […]
